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Old 07-01-2009, 04:57 PM
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Re: "Rules on killing ravens relaxed"

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Originally Posted by Gill Catton View Post
There is a risk that feeding stations encourage more younger birds to stay in an area due to food always being available allowing them to feed when a resident pair is elsewhere - in fact if you kill a resident pair the result may well be more ravens that normal as the pair usually drive all youngersters out of their territory.

a difficult problem for all parties that's for sure
I appreciate the problems you mention, and of course it could be argued that they will learn that lamb carcases come from live lambs. I suppose it is a problem unlikely to be simply solved.
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